Callahan, William ("Willie") B
Private
Company I-Field & Staff (Hospital Steward)

Age at Enlistment: 19
Enlisted 6 March 1862 (ALSO 15 March) at Lafayette AL; Appears on Muster Roll of Company G (misread for "I") dated 13 May 1862 at Auburn AL;
Signed his parole at Vicksburg MS on 9 July 1863;
Appears on Payroll dated 29 Feb 1864 at Dalton GA with notation "Acting Steward in Regimental Hospital.
Has drawn $28.50 clothing";
Appears on post-war Record Roll prepared by T.J. Griffin, former Captain of Company I dated 28 June 1866 with notations "Single" and "Printer" by occupation, "Residence: LaFayette, Alabama" and "Served to close of the War."; Signed clothing receipts;

Mentioned as Dr. J.W. Oslin's surgery assistant in WEEKLY ENTERPRISE articles/wrote letters to T.J. Carlisle published in Enterprise (also listed in error as N.B. Callahan by Miller); Appears on Muster Roll of "Company 'I' 37th Regiment, Alabama Volunteers at LaFayette, Chambers County, Alabama, March 6, 1862" published in 31 July 1901 issue of LaFayette Sun (LaFayette, Chambers County AL) with Privates as "Callahan, Wm. B."
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His obituary from the 19 July 1911 issue of The LaFayette Sun, LaFayette, Alabama

"Death of W. B. Callahan
The friends and acquaintances of Mr. W. B. Callahan, of East Point, Ga., will regret to know that he passed away on the morning of July 11th. He had been in feeble health for more than a year, when a second stroke of paralysis ended his life. He was born and reared in this place. Some living here remember him as a boy.

In the war of the 60's, when every brave southern man felt he must take part, W. B. Callahan was not left behind; and though little more than a boy in age, he joined Co. I, 37th Ala. Reg't. and with other brave men and boys of Chambers County, he went to the front. He faithfully did his duty to the close of the war.

For a number of years, he has been a resident of East Point, Ga. In that place he was laid to rest. The deceased was a brother of Mrs. A. L. Robinson of this place."
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Source: http://www.alabama37th.com/bios-cade-carol.htm∼W. B. Callahan's Funeral Takes Place at East Point
The funeral of W. B. Callahan, one of the pioneer citizens of East Point, who died Tuesday morning (July 11, 1911) at the residence of his son, Dr. R. B. Callahan, near East Point, was held at 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon from the East Point Methodist church and the remains interred in Crest Hill cemetery. Mr. Callahan was born in Lafayette, Ala., in 1843 and in 1866 was married to Miss Jane Gliddens, of Lee county, Alabama, who died last December. Mr. Callahan had been connected with a number of newspapers. Starting with The Enquirer-Sun of Columbus, Ga., he went later to The Advertiser of Montgomery, Ala., and later was editor and proprietor of The Opelika Observer. In 1890 he moved to East Point and owned The Manchester Press of that
place, when what is now called College Park was known as Manchester. After the outbreak of the Civil war he entered the Thirty-seventh Alabama regiment as a private and later was transferred to the medical department, where he served until the close of the war. During his entire life since the age of eighteen he had been an active member of the Methodist church. During his later years, and especially since the death of his wife, Mr. Callahan had devoted himself to the raising of fine chickens and had a number of Rhode Island Reds of which he was very proud. Mr. Callahan is survived by four children, W. Tom Callahan, Dr. R. B. Callahan, Mrs. Sam W. Ramsey and Mrs. Henry S. Reese, all of East Point, and by three brothers and two sisters, Rev. J. H. Callahan of Whitesville, Ga.; P. H. and S. O. Callahan of Texas; Mrs. M. E. Robinson of Lafayette, Ala. And Mrs. J. H. Murphey of Temple, Texas.

Note: Crest Hill was later renamed, "Hill Crest" and later, "Hillcrest".